Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Trained at his father's kiln. Designer Willet acquired a second-generation ease with his materials which has enabled him to perpetrate many a monkish jest in solemn designs. The first work he ever submitted to Architect Cram showed a young, red-haired craftsman offering a sample window to a stern king with Cram's features. In classical script appeared the legend: Non tam bona quam quaedam fortasse mon tam mala quam quaedam alia certe.* Cram looked it over, asked: "What is that little devil doing whispering in my ear?" Said Willet: "Oh, that...
...letter to be issued one month hence But Secretary Miller plainly indicated what the Institute's method is to be. Most common device of the propagandist, said he, is to pin a bad name" on his opposition. Worst name in the Middle Ages was "heretic " Today it is "Red." Thus in the last national election Publisher William Randolph Hearst called Candidate Roosevelt a Red Billed Propagandist Roosevelt countered with the label "Economic Royalists." To take emotionalism and prejudice out of labels, Analyst Miller proposes to study what the name means, whether it is truly applied, who uses...
...RED PONY-John Steinbeck- Covici-Friede...
...Distributed free to Publisher Covici-Friede's friends last Christmas, Author Steinbeck's St. Katy the Virgin, a short story, is now quoted at $10. Published last fortnight in an edition limited to 699 autographed, de luxe copies, Novelist Steinbeck's latest work, The Red Pony, was quoted at $10 a copy, and no man knew where it would go from there...
Some readers, baffled by the famine-price set on this slim, 81-page volume (all the more remarkable in view of Steinbeck's proletarian themes), may jump to the wrong conclusion that The Red Pony contains erotic or esoteric matter too caviarish for the general. On the contrary, The Red Pony is neither scandalous nor abstruse but of an innocence that almost qualifies it for juvenile readers. It consists of three episodes based on Author Steinbeck's youth. Central character is a healthy, shy, towheaded, 10-year-old farm boy named Jody Tiflin. Given a red pony colt...